Between mountains and seas

Chapter 16 Curse

What, what's going on here?Shao Jingxing stared at the scarlet marks in horror.Real scars will also appear where the dream hurts?He touched it with his fingers in disbelief, and immediately gasped in pain—this scar is not only real, it feels like the whole piece of skin is about to fall off!

Now he didn't even dare to take a bath anymore, Shao Jingxing wiped his body carefully, and awkwardly pasted a few band-aids on the wound, then sat on the bed and became dazed.He didn't dare to sleep anymore, these two dreams had already exhausted him to the point of dying, if he had a few more dreams, he might really be exhausted to death.

The cell phone rang suddenly, especially harsh in the middle of the night, and Shao Jingxing shivered in fright: "Who is this? It's in the middle of the night——is it still letting people sleep? Hey! Who!"

The answer to his angry question was a calm and unwavering voice: "Me."

"Huo, Huo Qing?" Shao Jingxing never expected that this strange number belonged to Huo Qing, "You, why did you call me?"

"Why did you call me?" Huo Qing asked back.

"What?" Shao Jingxing looked confused, "When did I call you? In the middle of the night, I—"

"Just a few minutes ago." Huo Qing interrupted him, "I sensed the blood of the green clam, you are calling me."

"Green liver blood..." Shao Jingxing was stunned for a long time, and suddenly thought of the dream just now, "Yes, is it a dream? I, I did dream of you——No, I didn't mean anything else, I was Say, I had a weird dream..."

About half an hour later, Huo Qing climbed up from the balcony of Shao Jingxing's bedroom.

"Don't you even walk through the door?" Shao Jingxing sat on the bed wrapped in a pajamas, and looked at him eagerly, "Where do you live, you came quite quickly. Did you come by car? I didn't hear the sound." The villa It's so quiet here, you can hear the sound from a distance when a car drives over.But he had listened for a long time with his ears upright, but he didn't hear anything.

Huo Qing didn't answer his questions, but walked over and pulled him up: "Let me see your injury."

After a while, Shao Jingxing felt that those scars were not so painful anymore: "It seems to be much better..."

But behind him, Huo Qing's expression changed when he uncovered the Band-Aid: "Are you sure it's much better?"

"Yeah, it's not like that just now—" Shao Jingxing turned his head to look over his shoulder, but gasped, "Fuck, what, what is this?" In half an hour, those few red marks the size of finger belly It actually doubled in size, and two pieces even grew together, and the color turned into a gloomy black-red color, like coagulated blood.Whatever it is, it's definitely not normal anyway!

Huo Qing stared at the scars for a while, then threw away the useless band-aids: "Since I left, what happened to you?" It's only been less than 48 hours.

"I just had a dream..." Shao Jingxing kept turning his head to look at his shoulder in a panic, but Huo Qing turned his face back: "Before the dream. Where did you go, who did you meet, look Whatever happened, tell me."

"I, I went to Antique Street with Hu Yuan..." This question was not difficult for Shao Jingxing to answer, because he had only been out this time since Huo Qing left.

"Relic? Nine-curved beads?" Huo Qing mused, "That woman has touched this bead, and you have touched it too. Who else has touched it?"

"What? Are you saying that the woman didn't have a heart attack?" Shao Jingxing panicked even more, "Hu Yuan, Hu Yuan touched it too. By the way, there's also Boss Zheng!"

Huo Qing threw his mobile phone to him: "Call them and ask them if they have any nightmares."

"It's in the middle of the night..." Shao Jingxing muttered, but still called Hu Yuan.

After a while, Hu Yuan answered the phone: "Hello, Young Master Jing? It's so late, what's the matter?"

"What are you doing?" Shao Jingxing clearly heard the rapid breathing coming from the phone, "I said, you are not still fighting at this time, are you?" It was three o'clock in the morning.

"What are you fighting for? I'm sleeping." Hu Yuan adjusted his breathing, "Hey, it's also fortunate that you called, otherwise I would still have nightmares. Oh my god, the dream was full of ghosts, it scared me to death. At this moment, my heart is still beating wildly, and I feel like I can't breathe."

"Are you having nightmares too?" Shao Jingxing immediately turned his gaze to Huo Qing, "Then what, you call Boss Zheng and ask if he's okay!" Huo Qing was right, and Hu Yuan also had nightmares !

Hu Yuan was puzzled: "Mr. Jing, why are you looking for Boss Zheng in the middle of the night?"

"Don't ask, just call now! This matter is very important, and I will explain it to you later."

"Oh—" Hu Yuan struggled a bit, but agreed.Shao Jingxing is a good financial backer, as long as he can do more business for Boss Zheng in the future, he probably won't care about the interruption this time.

Putting down the phone, Shao Jingxing asked Huo Qing in fear, "What, what's going on?"

"Like a curse." Huo Qing was still carefully examining the black and red marks on his body, "If I can meet those people, maybe—"

"No!" Shao Jingxing yelled, "What's the matter with the curse! That's it, will there be a curse on that relic?" Isn't that something that only great virtuous monks have?

The corners of Huo Qing's mouth curved slightly in a rare way, revealing a slightly sarcastic smile: "A virtuous monk? If it is really the relic of a virtuous monk, of course not. But the relic is just a special way of existence of human remains , what the eminent monk left behind is called a relic.”

It was rare for him to say such a long series of words. Shao Jingxing turned his mind several times before he understood what he meant: "Then, that means that the thing may have been left by someone else..." So it does not contain any Buddhist spirit , but hostility and curses?

"Just, like that Pharaoh's curse?" In fact, you don't need to listen to foreign stories. There are countless stories about being cursed because they touched dead people's things in the antique trade, but in the past he Hearing it as nonsense, never thought that there is actually a truth...

"Then what should I do?" Shao Jingxing looked at Huo Qing anxiously, "I'm afraid I can't find that relic!" At that time, when the woman fell to the ground, the scene was chaotic, and no one cared about a bead rolling all over the floor. .Now after such a long time, where can I find it!

But before Huo Qing could answer, Hu Yuan's call came: "Jing Shao, Lao Zheng is in the hospital! That woman's family went to make trouble with their house at night, and Lao Zheng had a cerebral infarction. He is currently in the hospital Rescue, I heard his wife cry, people may - can't do it..."

The phone almost fell from Shao Jingxing's hand. He didn't care that Hu Yuan was still talking, so he hung up the phone and looked back at Huo Qing: "Old, old Zheng, I can't do it..." It couldn't be such a coincidence, the four of them Everyone who has touched the bead has something wrong, there must be something wrong with that thing!

Huo Qing obviously heard Hu Yuan's words a long time ago, he frowned slightly, but what Shao Jingxing said was completely unexpected: "It seems that it has nothing to do with relics."

"What, what?" Shao Jingxing couldn't turn the corner all of a sudden, "The four of us have had accidents!"

Huo Qing gave him a helpless look, and could only explain: "But your accidents happened in different ways. Both of you died suddenly, and you and Hu Yuan probably had nightmares every night, and the injuries in the dreams reflected on yourself, and gradually Accumulate, and eventually weaken and die."

These are two completely different ways of dying, and it is possible that contact with the same thing will produce completely different results. Attention, so I deliberately arranged for two of them to die every few days.

"Someone?" Shao Jingxing opened his mouth wide, "You mean, someone is manipulating it behind the scenes? Why, why?" Who did he offend, and he wanted to hurt him so much?

Huo Qing glanced at him, and Shao Jingxing immediately understood what he meant: "Ask me? How do I know? I haven't harmed anyone!" In fact, the people who leaned towards him were all here to gain benefits. You can't be taken advantage of and be hated by others, right?

After talking for a while, Shao Jingxing suddenly felt sleepy. He just opened his mouth and yawned, when Huo Qing immediately slapped him on the face—slap!

"Why did you hit me?" Huo Qing's slap wasn't heavy, it just scared Shao Jingxing back from yawning. Tears welled up in the corners of his eyes. It was so uncomfortable.

"You can't sleep." Huo Qing said simply, "Once you fall asleep, the curse will start again. I don't know the duration of the curse, it may be a few days, or it may be one night." To kill Shao Jingxing and Hu Yuan, but human life cannot be risked, and Shao Jingxing's role is too special, the special affairs department needs him.

"Ah?" Shao Jingxing shivered, but he still wanted to yawn uncontrollably, and his eyelids became heavy again and again, "But I'm so sleepy, what should I do... this curse, how can I get rid of this curse?"

Huo Qing was silent for a moment, and his eyes flickered slightly: "I can't help it, but—" He paused subtly before continuing, "I have a colleague who specializes in the study of curses, he can—"

Before he finished speaking, Shao Jingxing jumped up: "Your colleague? Where is he? Please help him!"

Huo Qing lowered his eyes: "It's not convenient for him to come out, but I can take you there."

Shao Jingxing didn't notice the subtle changes in his tone and movements at all, and grabbed his clothes excitedly: "Thank you so much, thank you so much! Woooooo, fortunately I met you..." Do the math, this is Huo Qing's first How many times have I saved him!If it weren't for Huo Qing, I'm afraid he wouldn't even know how to die this time.No, no, without Huo Qing, the first time he fell into the world of mountains and seas, he would be taken away by the dogs, so what would happen next.

"Then when are we going?" Shao Jingxing suppressed the desire to yawn and looked at Huo Qing eagerly, wishing that he would take him away right away.

Sure enough, Huo Qing immediately said: "Let's go now." He paused again, and then added, "It may take a little more time. You should bring some change and laundry."

"Okay, okay!" Shao Jingxing quickly packed a travel bag, "Let's go."

A few minutes later, Shao Jingxing tightly hugged Huo Qing's waist on the back seat of the motorcycle, and shouted loudly against the blowing wind, "Did you modify this motorcycle yourself? Why is there no sound from the engine at such a fast speed?" Where did this engine come from? Is it original or modified?" I really didn't realize that there is something different about a seemingly inconspicuous old motorcycle.

Huo Qing moved his body uncomfortably: "You sit down." You don't need to hug him so tightly, do you?

"I'm sitting well." Shao Jingxing still hugged Huo Qing tightly, and his whole body wanted to grab his back, and asked excitedly, "Can this speed be faster? I said, are you racing? I I’ve seen it a few times before, and none of those people’s cars can compare to yours!”

He was talking about those black racing cars.As a life-saving dude, Shao Jingxing himself would not dare to participate in this kind of race car, but he also liked the feeling of fast speed, so he went to see it several times.But in his opinion, none of those carefully modified racing cars can compare to Huo Qing's.

Huo Qing really wanted to speed up a bit more, and gave Shao Jingxing a mouthful of wind so that he wouldn't keep spraying hot air next to his ears.But thinking that he just gave up his principles and lied to deceive Shao Jingxing, he still didn't speed up, but turned his head patiently, pretending that he didn't hear Shao Jingxing's words.

In summer, it dawned early, and when Huo Qing stopped the car, it was already twilight. Shao Jingxing looked around, then looked in front of him, and immediately gasped, "I've eaten so-and-so's private dishes! The dishes here are quite good. , that's the name... I think if you change it to a higher-end name, the business will be much better."

Huo Qing also looked up at the signboard, but said nothing.Ji Xiaojiu's naming level is like this, "so-and-so's private kitchen dish" is as perfunctory as "fuzzy Garfield".Fortunately, this restaurant was not opened to make money...

Of course, the private restaurant didn't open at this time, but when Huo Qing brought Shao Jingxing in through the side door, a man just happened to come down the stairs: "Xiao Huo? Hey, isn't this the kid?"

Shao Jingxing looked up and saw that the man was about five or sixty years old, his temples were slightly gray, his eyes were bright and energetic, but he looked very kind.Shao Jingxing never recognized his birth, not to mention he seemed to know him when he heard what a man said, so he immediately grinned: "Uncle, do you know me?"

Huo Qing paused, then turned to Shao Jingxing and said, "This is Deputy Section Chief Gu of the Special Affairs Section."

"Ah, Uncle Gu—" Shao Jingxing immediately changed his address.In terms of personnel relations, his brain has always turned quickly.This is obviously Huo Qing's boss. If Huo Qing said that he would bring him to a colleague to lift the curse, he must go through Deputy Section Chief Gu.In this case, he should be sweeter to Deputy Section Chief Gu. There are only advantages and no disadvantages.

Gu Sheng couldn't help laughing, but his gaze casually fell on Shao Jingxing's eyebrows: "You are—"

"Uncle Gu——" Huo Qing coughed lightly, "Mr. Shao seems to have been cursed by something, I'm not sure, I dare not undo it, so I brought him here, you see..."

Seeing that his ears were a little red, Shao Jingxing couldn't help being surprised—is this ashamed?Because there is no way to lift the curse for him, so I feel a bit ashamed that I am not good at learning?Or do you feel sorry for not being able to save someone?Oh, Huo Qing is so sincere, it's not too difficult to find a good person like him these days.Moreover, other people are so good-looking, they have both inner beauty and outer beauty, this must be called the best of both worlds, right?

Just as he was thinking this way, he saw Gu Sheng looked at Huo Qing with a strange look, then coughed, and looked at Shao Jingxing carefully: "What's unusual about Mr. Shao?"

With his life at stake, Shao Jingxing's mouth immediately became sweeter: "Uncle Gu can just call me Xiao Shao. Actually, I haven't figured out what's going on until now, it's just a dream..."

He was chattering, when he suddenly heard a voice coming from the cabinet next to him: "Duwu——"

What is this strange name?Shao Jingxing followed the prestige, and saw a tail retracted in the half-open cupboard, and then a mournful face appeared from the place where the tail disappeared.

It's so round -- Shao Jingxing stared at the cat's face, and couldn't help sighing in his heart -- the cat's face, viewed from the front, would be a neat circle if the two ears were removed!Garfield's characteristic short nose is the center of the circle, from where it is the same distance to any part of the face...

But is that what Garfield called?Shao Jingxing has never raised a cat, but he has friends who have raised them. He has seen all kinds of puppets, beautiful shorts, and golden gradients. Some cats meow softly, and some are more bold, but he has never I've never heard of a cat that can "meow", shouldn't it be "meow"?Or did he hear wrong?

"Growing—" Garfield yelled at him again, as if to prove that he had heard correctly.

This is a blue and white Garfield, the fur on the back is blue-gray, but the limbs, mouth and chest are white. It looks very clean and beautiful.However, the melancholy expression unique to Garfield was particularly evident on its face, even so melancholy that it was almost dejected. Shao Jingxing could almost read the words "There is nothing to love" from its big face.

"This cat is so weird—" Shao Jingxing still likes these fluffy little animals, and was about to praise them, but before he finished speaking, the cat turned around and got into the cabinet again, pointing its butt at over him.Not only that, but the two hind legs kicked a few times in turn. This, isn't this an action of burying poop?

The corner of Shao Jingxing's mouth almost twitched.Although he is not arrogant enough to think that everyone loves flowers, but the pets raised by his friends have always treated him well, so why did he treat him like a cat poop?This cat is not so cute, it is obviously strange!

Seeing Shao Jingxing's distorted expression, Gu Sheng couldn't help laughing: "It's because I feel the curse on you that I have this reaction." And it's not a particularly powerful curse, otherwise it's not burying shit, but to Arched back, fried hair and vertical tail.Probably the person who cast the curse on Shao Jingxing didn't think about being found out at all, so he just cast a rough curse casually, as long as it could kill people.